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Study says societal factors key to untreated MDD in U.S. southern women.

Women's Health Weekly

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2003 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Despite the widespread notion of the bucolic life in the country, major depressive disorder (MDD) is common among impoverished women in the rural South," report specialists from the University of Virginia in a recent issue of Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

E.J. Hauenstein and colleagues cited "paucity of treatment available," lack of insurance and therefore ability to pay, and distance from treatment facilities as reasons why women with MDD often go untreated.

"Even if treatment was available, impoverished, rural, Southern women are unlikely to seek services because of cultural and social prohibitions. These include incongruence between the biomedical model of MDD and sociocultural explanations for its causes and manifestations, stigma, and traditional viewpoints of women that keep them isolated and invisible," stated the researchers.

They called for "innovative treatment strategies ... based on local views of MDD and its treatment, and people and monetary resources available in poor rural economies."

Hauenstein and colleagues also cited what they see as a need for "ethnographic ...

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